Choosing things named after Landforms = Bay = Cape = Hill = Weald = Wold = Highland = Cave = Cliff = Island -------------------------- The Highlander Longways Country Dance, triple minor Book XXII for the Year 1788, 8 Cotillions and 6 Country Dances (Should work fine with any bouncy duple-meter tune.) 8 bars The first couple cast to middle and circle with the third couple 8 bars The first couple cast up and circle with the second couple 8 bars The first couple lead down the middle and back, and cast off into second place 8 bars The first couple allemande (e.g. overhead) Repeat whole dance from progressed position -------------------------- Haverstock Hill Longways Country Dance, triple minor Button & Whitaker's Selection of Dances Reels and Waltzes No 18, c.1812 Key: G Meter 6/8 Music here: https://ia903205.us.archive.org/16/items/ButtonWhitakerDancesReelsAndWaltzesNo18/Button_%26_Whitaker__Dances_Reels_and_Waltzes__No_18.pdf#page=2 8 bars First couple dances a figure of eight dance around the second couple, and back home 8 bars The first couple join hands and slip down the middle and return to second place, seconds moving up; then the first couple allemande turns (back to back) 8 bars First couple swing partner, then first corner, then partner and then second corner 8 bars All six join hands and circle once around Repeat whole dance from progressed position [Aaargh - First three strains are exact same figures as original of Dover Cliffs.] ------------------------- Rhode Island Longways triple minor dance M.J.C. Fraisier 1796 - Scholars Companion, Cotillions and Country Dances (At L.O.C - but it's just a pamphlet of directions, no music.) https://www.regencydances.org/notation.php?wDanceId=167 [Sheet music not given. The tune the website plays for this seems pretty nice.] Introduction and Honours (2 bars) 8 bars First two couple cross by right hand, turn single, cross back by the left and turn single again 8 bars First couple lead down the middle and up and cast to second place 8 bars Six hands all the way round 8 bars Swap Diagonals and return Repeat dance from progressed position ----------------------------------------- THE NORTHDOWN WALTZ (PB, KH, Barnes, 1820) (Original sez 2nd corners, PB sez first corners, I go with 2nd corners) Key: Bb, Meter: 3/4, Barnes A1: 1-4: 2nd corners take right hands, balance forward and back, then change places. 5-8: 1st corners the same. A2: 1-8: Repeat above to places. B: 1-8: 1s lead down center, lead back to 2nd place, 2s moving up. C: 1-8: In ballroom position, couples waltz around each other CCW (LOD), exactly once, to end progressed. The North Downs are a long ridge of hills running eastward from Rochester to Dover in Kent. Original pub sez poussette, not waltz. -------------------------------------------- DOVER CLIFFS Platt, 1798 Kentish Hops Key Bb, Meter: 3/8 Green Barnes A1 1-8: 1s full figure eight through the 2nd couple A2 1-8: 1s down the middle past two, turn toward partner, and up the middle to 2nd place, 2s moving up. B 1-8: All allemande partners by the right and by the left. (This interpretation has half right-hand turn, turn lady under to home; repeat on left hand). C 1-8: All right hand turn person on right diagonal (per Duke of Kent); turn partner two hands. --------- Original directions per RegencyDance.org (Triple Minor, 1s-only allemande, 48-bar sequence). Dover Cliffs Longways Country Dance, triple minor Book 3rd for the Year 1798, Twelve New Country Dances 16 bars The first couple dance a whole figure-of-eight around the second couple 16 bars The first couple join hands and slip down the middle and return to second place, seconds moving up; then the first couple allemande (back to back) 16 bars The first couple swing partner, then first corner, then partner and then second corner Repeat whole dance from progressed position https://RegencyDances.org You may copy this notation, with attribution, for non-commercial use subject to Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)